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The Influence Of Misinformation On Twitter During COVID-19 [PDF]
, 2023 openThere has been a significant impact on people's behavior due to misinformation, especially during the Coronavirus Disease 2019, which directly affects general health awareness.
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The proliferation of health misinformation on social media is a growing public health concern. Online communities for mental health (OCMHs) are also considered an outlet for exposure to misinformation.
Nicole Bizzotto +2 more
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From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online
Media and Communication, 2021 Research typically presumes that people believe misinformation and propagate it through their social networks. Yet, a wide range of motivations for sharing misinformation might impact its spread, as well as people’s belief of it. By examining research on
Miriam J. Metzger +4 more
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Knowing when to act: A call for an open misinformation library to guide actionable surveillance
Big Data & Society, 2021 The design and reporting of data-driven studies seeking to measure misinformation are patchy and inconsistent, and these studies rarely measure associations with, or effects on, behaviour.
Adam G Dunn +3 more
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Synthetic Misinformers: Generating and Combating Multimodal Misinformation
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation, 2023 With the expansion of social media and the increasing dissemination of multimedia content, the spread of misinformation has become a major concern. This necessitates effective strategies for multimodal misinformation detection (MMD) that detect whether the combination of an image and its accompanying text could mislead or misinform.
Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos +3 more
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Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation
, 2021 We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying news sharing behavior on Twitter.
Nikolov, D., Menczer, F., Flammini, A.
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Politics meets healthcare? Religious misinformation in India during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jurnal Sosial Humaniora, 2020 India has recently become a hotspot of misinformation: the COVID-19 brings a new opportunity for the rumor-spreaders. Of various categories, religious misinformation seems harmful for both Indian society and public health.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
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The different forms of COVID-19 misinformation and their consequences
, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, an understanding of the structure and organization of beliefs in pandemic conspiracy theories and misinformation becomes increasingly critical for addressing the threat posed by these dubious ideas.
Stoler, Justin +3 more
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Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India [PDF]
, 2022 We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation.
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Misinformative Advertising [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper analyzes how advertising can be used to mislead rivals in an oligopoly environment with demand uncertainty. In particular, we examine a two-period game in which two firms each sell a differentiated product whose attractiveness vis-à-vis the competitor's product is unknown.
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